Living root bridges are a kind of tree shaping in which rivers are spanned by architecture formed out of the roots of ficus plants. Due to their being...
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Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge is a living root bridge in Meghalaya, India. It can be reached via trekking 45 kilometres (28 mi), or 6500 steps, from...
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Rangthylliang 1 root bridge is a living root bridge in Cherrapunji region, Meghalaya, northeast India. It is considered to be the longest living root bridge, at over...
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Meghalaya (section Living root bridges)
major tourist destinations. Living root bridges Meghalaya is famous for its living root bridges, a kind of suspension bridge made over rivers using intertwined...
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Jaintia tribal people have created living root bridges, which are a form of tree shaping. Here, simple suspension bridges are made by training the roots of...
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Kongthong (section Living root bridges)
the whistled language "Jingrwai Iawbei" and build the remarkable living root bridges. Tourists and language researchers from several nations, including...
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Project". The Living Root Bridge Project. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017. "The Living-Root Bridge: The Symbol...
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its living root bridges; one an impressive double-decker suspension bridge called Jingkieng Nongriat. The village has three functional root bridges. These...
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practiced for at least several hundred years, as demonstrated by the living root bridges built and maintained by the Khasi people of India. Early 20th-century...
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original on May 16, 2022. Retrieved June 3, 2022. "Jingkieng jri: Living Root Bridge Cultural Landscapes". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from...
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liable for NYC bridge jumpers: judge". New York Post. Retrieved 3 January 2019. "How are Living Root Bridges Made?". The Living Root Bridge Project. 5 May...
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Germany and living root bridge in North-East India. Common in the Indian state of Meghalaya and grown by the Khasi and Jaintia, the bridges consist of...
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Human uses of plants (section Living structures)
trees to graft is occasionally exploited by tree shaping to create living root bridges in Meghalaya and Nagaland states in India and on the islands of Sumatra...
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family. It is the grandest monument built during the Ahom era. The living root bridges of Cherrapunji aren't built – they are grown over hundreds of years...
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Dawki Bridge, is a suspension bridge over the Umngot River. It was constructed in 1932 by the British. Living Root Bridge: type suspension bridge created...
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living root bridges in villages near Sohra like the Umshiang root bridge, Mawsaw root bridge, Ritymmen root bridge, and the Double Decker root bridge...
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Historical hydroculture (section Living root bridges)
flooded rice fields in Indochina and China. There are 500-year-old bridges made by living roots in India, sculpted by the War-Khasis. These trees span rivers...
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A breathing bridge is a type of living root bridge handmade from the aerial roots of banyan trees from the region of Amazonas (Peru). Nukak Makú indigenous...
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Jembatan akar (English: living root bridge) is the bridge that forms the fabric of the two roots of the trees that grow across and extends over a stream...
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Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2015-08-19. "Living Root Bridges". Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2012-06-19...
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perhaps best known for its living root bridges. The Umnnoi living root bridge, known locally as Jingkieng Deingjri, which means 'bridge of the rubber tree',...
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Rogers, Patrick A. (2015-09-02). "The Undiscovered Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya Part 2: Bridges Near Pynursla". Evenfewergoats.blogspot.com. Retrieved...
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Root races are concepts in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy. As described in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine (1888), these races...
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television season, Root appeared as a series regular as "R.O." on the Beau Bridges/Lloyd Bridges comedy/western series Harts of the West on CBS. Root guest-starred...
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tourist destination where people use the whistled language and build living root bridges. Kynrem Falls Mawlynnong village, located in the Pynsursla block...
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Julia Watson (landscape designer) (category Living people)
seven years, and spotlights nature-based infrastructures such as the Living Root Bridges of the Khasi people in India and the floating island homes of the...
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forests, and there are a number of waterfalls and the Rbang Amkhlew Living Root Bridge. The people of Nongtalang are mostly War-Jaintias, a tribal group...
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Joseph Edward Root, MBE (born 30 December 1990) is an English international cricketer, who plays for the English cricket team and formerly captained the...
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least several hundred years, the oldest known examples being the living root bridges built and maintained by the Khasi people of Meghalaya, India using...
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Khynriam. The War inhabitants of the Khasi community designed and built living root bridges of the War region. The traditional costume of the Khasis is known...
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